The A&E Wait Time editorial team
The small team responsible for source selection, fact-checking, corrections and the editorial standards on this site. We publish names, roles and responsibilities so you know exactly who you are reading.
The team
Founder & Editor
Founder, editor and product lead
Started A&E Wait Time after spending hours hunting for accurate, up-to-date NHS A&E waiting times before a family hospital visit. Responsible for product direction, data sourcing relationships and the day-to-day editorial running of the site.
Responsibilities
- Editorial standards and tone
- Data source selection and licensing
- Final sign-off on every published correction
- Relationships with NHS trusts that publish live dashboards
The team is small by design. Our editorial policy spells out exactly how decisions get made and how disagreements are resolved.
What this team is not
- Not clinicians. No-one on this team is a registered medical professional (GMC, NMC, HCPC or equivalent). We do not give medical advice, triage or diagnose.
- Not NHS-affiliated. We are an independent UK organisation. We are not employed by, contracted to, or endorsed by the NHS or any of its constituent bodies.
- Not paid by hospitals. We do not accept payment from NHS Trusts, hospitals, ICBs or health boards in exchange for inclusion, ranking, or favourable copy.
If a verifiable, registered UK clinician (GMC, NMC or HCPC) ever joins or reviews this site, we will publish their full name, registration number and the dated content they have signed off — and not before.
How we work
- Source selection. Every data source goes through an editorial review before it appears on the site. We only use public NHS publications and named NHS Trust dashboards. Each source is documented on our data sources page.
- Ingestion & labelling. When a number is ingested, the editorial pipeline labels it with the correct freshness badge (Live, Latest published, Monthly average, Estimated) based on the source's publication cadence and the timestamp on the source page itself — not the time we fetched it.
- Sanity checks. Numbers that fall outside historical ranges for a hospital are flagged for editorial review before they are published. We would rather show a slightly stale figure than a fast wrong one.
- Corrections. Reader-reported corrections go to a single editorial inbox. We aim to acknowledge within 2 working days and publish a fix or explanation within 5 working days. Material corrections are dated and listed on the methodology change log.
- Quarterly review. Every 90 days we re-read every evergreen page (about, methodology, data sources, editorial policy, every region page). The 'Last reviewed' date on each page is updated only when the actual content has been re-checked.
Standards we hold ourselves to
Source transparency. Every wait number on the site is traceable to a public NHS publication or named trust dashboard, with a link out to the original.
No fabricated authority. We never claim NHS endorsement, clinical review or government affiliation that we do not have.
Visible freshness. Every page displays when each underlying data point was published, not just when the page was rendered.
Public corrections. Material corrections are dated and listed in the methodology change log. We do not silently edit numbers.
The full list lives in our editorial policy.
Get in touch
Editorial inbox
hello@aewaittime.co.ukLast reviewed . We re-review this page at minimum every 90 days.